The Arizona sentinel., 1887-07-09
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Tho lorsemen of the City of Mex ,co .-e subscribing money to aid the -.Ty in repaving the streets so that they may be able to use their horses. -Cht- cdgo Herald.
 A Winnipeg photographer has put himself in way to have a fine lot ot libel suits. He recently exhibited case full of photographs of his debtors, each being labelled with the name, ad- dress. and indebtedness of the person represented.
 The Czar has an album with the pictures of all the Nihilists who have been implicated in plots against his life. When the last attempt was made he remarked that the album would soon be filled, as there were only fewpages left.
 -1u UmCe Tn connection with the Greenwich hospital, England, was abol- ished, the occupant thereof receiving a gratuity of S7, 800 and pension of S2,80O, and the office was soon after re-establIshed with new title and a salary of S5,O0O.
 It has been discovered within short time that the schools which edu- cate the bulk of German children teach German history only down to the year 1872, so that all contemporaneous history remains unknown to them.
 The London General Omnibus Company pays ayearly dividend of 124 per cent The average price paid for their new horses is $170. They had one horse die on their hands every day in the year. To carry 9O,0OO. GOO pas sengers a year they have 75O omni- buses in service.
 At the present time there are on the pension lists of the British army the names of widows of officers to whom pensions were granted seventy years ago. Some of these widows must therefore be from one hundred to one hundred and thirty years of age. But the average Englishman is scep- tical on this point, preferring to be- lieve that there is fraud somewhere. - Philadelphia CaH.
 Generally man dies leaving less properly than he supposed that he owned. The Baron du Meuil, of Brus- sells, however, thought he owned but small property, and after making a few legacies, directed the remainder to be spent on his tomb. Some $500, 900 has been found to have belonged to him, and his heirs are trying to find out whether it must all go into a mausoleum.
 An immense kiln in the center of the tobacco warehouses at the London docks goes by the name of the Queens Tobacco-pipe." It is kept burning day and night and merchandise seized for non-payment of duty, or because it is considered under the law damaged or unstable, is burned in the kiln, the owners having no remedy. The ashes are sold for fertilizing purposes.
 MT. A. Req has discovered at Ma habalipur or Seven Pagodas-some thirty miles south of Madras. on the Coromandel coast-a hitherto unno- ticed cave temple, in addition to those already known to exist there. Anovel feature is that It has in front double moulded detached basement. with sock cts for wooden posts. MT. Req has also found a short Pallava inscription, which may be of importance, for none of the other inscriptions at Mahabali- pur supply any clue to their date.
 The InUalide RuSSe, the official journal of the minister of war, gives the effective forces of the czar on the first of January, 1886. According to this account the Russian regular army numbered at the time 824, 762 soldiers and 30, generals and officers. The reserves amounted to 1,600, S15 men. The militia of the first call counted 2, 160,0 men. And this without counting the Finland regiments.